Author: dolphingirl5092

  I slept in stops and starts, which is not unusual for me the night before a holiday or when I have to be up very early. This time I had a combination of both. The fact that the bed was a lot firmer than what I am used to did not help either. Still,…

I had been officially on leave for one day, but it was just a fairly standard day off that consisted on working on the trip report for our weekend trip in Italy in October, playing a game on my iPad and running some errands. I did spend a little bit of time on holiday related…

In many ways this is probably the strangest trip we ever took. On paper, it ticked all the boxes for a perfect trip. I have always enjoyed southern California and have some very dear friends there. I also have a decidedly soft spot for Disneyland. We also have been to two of out three of…

We had an early start that morning. We were up and about at 7:00. We took turns having a quick shower, packed our last odds and ends, and then we checked out. We had a train to catch at 8:30. It was a foggy morning and somewhat chilly. We thought that the weather had turned…

We were awake around 9:00 again. We got up and ready. This time round we headed to the main station in Pisa. We walked through the new part of the town, which is a residential area. We walked across a bridge with beautiful buildings on either side. There was also a beautiful church called Santa…

This trip was all a bit of a last-minute decision. I still had a day of leave left that I needed to take before the year is over. It just so happened that Graham’s birthday fell on a Friday this year. I booked his birthday off and requested for my days off that week to…